Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls

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double dactyls

...the second line must be a name; and the last lines of each stanza are truncated and should rhyme. One line in the second stanza must consist of a single word. According to the introduction to
Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967), edited by the poets Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, this single word should appear “somewhere in the poem, though preferably in...